New Operation Maple video highlights corporate tax evasion
Thirty Fortune 500 companies didn’t pay any tax in the last three years. Ever wonder why corporations continue to pay less or no tax while governments become more and more…
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Summer election may be fought over sneaky clause in budget bill
Dalton McGuinty is threatening to pull the plug on his own government after the opposition parties amended his budget bill yesterday in the legislature’s finance committee. Like the Harper government…
And the “I didn’t Vote” Whingers are at it Again….
As the proverbial dust settles on our raped and pillaged Canadian democracy, there are outcries everywhere about this drastic rewrite of our country’s laws and protections.. How many of the…
Eye of Scheer over Peace Tower of Sauron #LordOfTheBills
What’s going on inside the House of Commons today is no laughing matter. In fact, Minister Tony Clement told me that if I don’t like his joking about the step…
How to codify anti-discrimination in law
This is great: Ontario amends Human Rights Code to extend protections to transgender people, but really, can’t it be possible to write the law in such a way that we…
Prairie Music
Saskatchewan is known for many musicians, and types of music. It has a provincial name that is a challenge to include in songs too. However, not many people have heard…
Ten Years Blogging
I may have marked this milestone in February, but Google doesn’t tell me I did, and I don’t remember. Old bloggers also repeat themselves. My blogging is ten years old…
MPP Bill Mauro introduces 2,000 signature petition to Ontario legislature
Liberal MPP Bill Mauro introduced a 2,000-signature petition into the Ontario legislature today calling upon the government to use its influence to reopen the Canadian Blood Services Thunder Bay Plasma…
Quebec Should Stop Apologising For Speaking Truth to Power…
I am really, really tired of Jewish organizations condemning everyone and everything as it relates to the ironic use of fascist salutes, arguments and rebuttals..Like it or not, the term…
When the shift hits the fan
Dr. Danielle Martin has practically catalogued the various attacks on Canada’s Medicare system over the last two decades. The Chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare says that while the arguments…
Docs take McGuinty to court – case likely to decide whether government can unilaterally impose fee schedules and wage freezes
Ontario’s doctors are fighting back after the government unilaterally cut $340 million in fees last month. The Ontario Medical Association is applying to the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice for…
ConCalls: CEAP Adscam 2.0?
The annoying Canadian Economic Action Plan acronym CEAP appears in the latest Conservative phone calling scandal because a company Dean Del Mastro hired, got CEAP money to develop GeoVote. It’s…
I Spill, You Spill, We all Spill for Oil
The Canadian Press had a rather disappointing effort in presenting the true harm to the Red Deer area animal (and human) system. I know they’re short on time, so why…
“My place is destroyed” – Albertan
Plains Midstream Canada, wow, what an ironic name given their midstream oil leak on the plains of Alberta. I hope Plains Midschool Canada, or Plains Midlake Canada don’t operate in…
Will Women Ever Wake Up?
Nechemya Weberman, Orthodox Counselor To Hasidic Community, On Trial In Sex Abuse Case By COLLEEN LONG 06/10/12 06:53 PM ET Here’s an informative little missive from Huffpo today that is…
Observations on the working world
It’s been a while since I last wrote a blog. (Have you missed me? What do you mean, you didn’t notice I was gone?) Now that I am what is…
Favourite Poems LVII: Death
The first two lines — “Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me” — must be among the greatest opening lines of any poem. Death Because I…
ConCalls: Del Mastro Sits Down, Shuts Up
Ethical Dean should step down from being the PM’s Parliamentary secretary, and from his Ethics Committee posting. The Conservatives should continue to use Vic “The Violator” Toews, Elections Finance Act…
Peregrine Falcons in Regina
I’d recently wondered what became of the falcons that were popularized on TV during my youth. There was a project in Regina, at City Hall, to help the birds come…
ConCalls: Dean Del Mastro Investigated
Dean Del Mastro (DDM) has been under Elections Canada investigation during most of the RoboCon scandal hoo-haw since March, and Postmedia uncovered why. It’s in regard to a $21,000 personal…